A sudden onset of liver fluke led Gloucester farmer Paul Westaway to revisit his worm and fluke control strategy to ensure steady and profitable weight gains across his beef herd. Mr Westaway, who ...

Liver flukes have a complex life cycle involving snails. Adult liver flukes lay eggs in the bile ducts of the liver, the eggs are passed out through faeces. Under warm and humid environmental ...

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A dog-killing parasite known as "liver fluke" has been found in the Colorado River that passes through southern California, Fox News reported. Since 2019, one dog has died and 11 other cases have been ...

Thai researchers have urged people in Southeast Asia to stop eating raw freshwater fish because they risk becoming infected with a parasitic worm that may predispose them to developing liver cancer.

Three Long Island congressional representatives are demanding the Department of Veterans Affairs study the prevalence of the cancer-causing liver fluke among Vietnam veterans, to determine whether ...

The genetic code of the liver fluke parasite, Opisthorchis viverrini, has been cracked by an international team of researchers using a unique DNA analysis technique. Opisthorchis viverrini is a ...

Doctors in California found a throng of flatworm parasites overrunning a man’s innards—and they caught one of the little beasts on a horrifying video. The case began innocently enough: a 40-year-old ...

Veterans returned to the U.S. after fighting in the jungles of Vietnam a half century ago, but hundreds of them may be dying from a silent bullet — a slow-killing parasite living in the men decades ...

For the first time, scientists have an image of what happens inside an ant's brain when it is infected with a parasitic worm. Dicrocoelium dendriticum (or the lancet liver fluke) is a parasitic ...